GODLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY

GODLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY

Drama Desk Award Winner

For consistent originality and excellence in dramatizing modern literature, and especially for the vibrant theatricality of Godlight Theatre Company’s innovative productions

Drama Desk Award Winner

For consistent originality and excellence in dramatizing modern literature, and especially for the vibrant theatricality of Godlight Theatre Company’s innovative productions

10 Drama Desk Award Nominations

Joe Tantalo, Outstanding Director of a Play, Deliverance, Maruti Evans, Outstanding Lighting Design, Deliverance, Ien DeNio, Outstanding Sound Design for a Play, Deliverance, Bryce Hodgson, Outstanding Original Music for a Play, Deliverance, Danny Blackburn, Outstanding Original Music for a Play, Deliverance, Ien DeNio, Outstanding Sound Design for a Play, The Pilo Family Circus, Elizabeth Rhodes, Outstanding Soun Design for a Play, In the Heat of the Night, Maruti Evans, Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play, In the Heat of the Night, Maruti Evans, Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play, Blindness, Maruti Evans, Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play, Slaughterhouse-Five

drama desk award winner

designer Maruti Evans

the Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award

For his ingenious lighting designs, reflecting an exquisite and bold theatrical aesthetic. This season’s The Pilo Family Circus adapted by Matt Pelfrey confirm his incandescent creativity

"Deliverance proves the power of ingenious stagecraft"

–New York Post

"Deliverance proves the power of ingenious stagecraft"

–New York Post

The latest foray into the unstageable-turned-credible for the award-winning Godlight Theatre Company, proves to further this Off Broadway troupe’s knack for challenging the boundaries of adaptation...

— Entertainment Weekly

Tantalo and his team are creating a recognizable signature style, which is more than can be said of many bigger, wealthier companies.

— New York Post

"Godlight is one of the more inspiring stories in the New York theatre world"

-The New York Sun

"Godlight is one of the more inspiring stories in the New York theatre world"

-The New York Sun

This is the rare theatre company that contributes something indisputably unique to the New York theatre scene.

— Lighting and Sound America

Engaging the audience’s imagination, Director Joe Tantalo is able to create the theatrical equivalent of a novelist’s easy reach through time and space.

— Show Business Weekly

"Under the direction of the most imaginative director working today, Godlight blazed a unique trail"

-The Siegel Column

"Under the direction of the most imaginative director working today, Godlight blazed a unique trail"

-The Siegel Column

Starting with a premise that sounds almost impossible to capture convincingly onstage—this production, directed by Joe Tantalo, compounds the challenge by allowing virtually no set or props. It succeeds with astonishing virtuosity, evoking every twist in the river and the plot as surely as if it were being performed on location…

— The New Yorker

...director Joe Tantalo crafts an exceptionally taut and thrilling production that maximizes Maruti Evans’s sleek design. Using top-notch lighting and sound effects, and a solid ensemble, Tantalo evokes a science-fiction world not by resorting to high-tech toys, but by tickling the audience’s imagination. 

— TimeOut New York

"Godlight's production absorbed me in expected, even staggering ways."

-The New York Observer

"Godlight's production absorbed me in expected, even staggering ways."

-The New York Observer

Visceral shock and awe are to be expected with Godlight Theatre Company...Joe Tantalo can shoehorn more narrative—often combined with impressive visual and aural effects—onto a postage-stamp-size stage than do many other directors working in larger houses. His production of Alan Lyddiard’s fleet adaptation of 1984 is no exception...

— TimeOut New York

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Godlight Theatre Company is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Godlight Theatre Company must be made payable to Fractured Atlas.

Fractured Atlas is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Contributions for the purposes of Godlight Theatre Company are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.